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CONFERENCE – Chronic Living. Quality, vitality and health in the 21st century

Datum
04. März – 06. März 2021 

Still pos­si­ble to reg­is­ter as a non-paper par­tic­i­pant! 5 amaz­ing keynote talks, 40 open pan­el ses­sions cov­er­ing top­ics such as “strug­gles around care”, “liv­ing with/at risk”, “the (un)making of space” and “chron­ic car­ing” through 380+ papers. Join us!

CHRONIC LIVING

qual­i­ty, vital­i­ty and health in the 21st century

an inter­na­tion­al conference

4th – 6th of March 2021, Uni­ver­si­ty of Copen­hagen, Denmark

Reg­is­ter Here

Keynote Speak­ers:  

  • Aditya Bharad­waj, Anthro­pol­o­gy and Soci­ol­o­gy, Grad­u­ate Insti­tute of Inter­na­tion­al and Devel­op­ment Studies
  • Jean­nette Pols, Depart­ment of Soci­ol­o­gy and Anthro­pol­o­gy, Uni­ver­si­ty of Amsterdam
  • Niko­las Rose, Depart­ment of Glob­al Health & Social Med­i­cine, King’s Col­lege London
  • Susan Reynolds Whyte, Depart­ment of Anthro­pol­o­gy, Uni­ver­si­ty of Copenhagen
  • Joe Dumit, Depart­ment of Anthro­pol­o­gy, Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia Davis

While still (too) many peo­ple die from fatal dis­eases, more and more peo­ple all around the world are liv­ing with chron­ic con­di­tions. Qual­i­ta­tive aspects of dai­ly liv­ing, thus, emerge as objects of knowl­edge as well as sites of inter­ven­tions just as “lifestyle” and “well­be­ing” fig­ure as tar­gets of more and more health and wel­fare inter­ven­tions. “Qual­i­ty of life” has become a qual­i­ty of care para­me­ter mea­sured by med­ical pro­fes­sion­als who pro­vide treat­ments for dis­eases that can­not be cured, only lived with. A “nor­mal life” has become the promise in adver­tise­ments that phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal com­pa­nies bring out. Pre­ven­tive (men­tal) health inter­ven­tions, “pos­i­tive liv­ing” HIV projects, and patient asso­ci­a­tions, while pro­vid­ing advice and sup­port fam­i­lies on how best to “live with” a par­tic­u­lar con­di­tion, feed into imper­a­tives of liv­ing well.

With this move towards qual­i­ty, vital­i­ty and health, and with chron­ic liv­ing as object at the inter­sec­tion of knowl­edge pro­duc­tion and inter­ven­tion, a new pol­i­tics of liv­ing con­tin­ues to unfold which pos­es method­olog­i­cal, the­o­ret­i­cal, and nor­ma­tive chal­lenges in the social sci­ences of med­i­cine. Med­ical anthro­pol­o­gy, soci­ol­o­gy, STS and oth­er neigh­bour­ing dis­ci­plines have a long tra­di­tion of study­ing the process­es of liv­ing with (chron­ic) dis­ease. Count­less ethno­graph­ic stud­ies have pro­vid­ed insights about how all around the world peo­ple go about their every­day life endeav­ours while actu­al­ly liv­ing with depres­sion, demen­tia, dia­betes, can­cer, heart dis­ease, kid­ney dis­ease and more. As a result, a wide range of ana­lyt­i­cal tools and the­o­ret­i­cal reper­toires have emerged to grasp “chron­ic liv­ing” rang­ing from expe­ri­ence (inter­sub­jec­tiv­i­ty), exis­ten­tial mean­ing (lead­ing a moral/ethical life), suf­fer­ing (strug­gling along), belong­ing (rela­tion­al­i­ty), doing (tin­ker­ing), per­for­mance (affor­dances) or as an object of dis­ci­plin­ing (sub­jec­ti­va­tion).

The Chron­ic Liv­ing con­fer­ence aims to engage, unpack, explore and tack­le qual­i­ty, vital­i­ty and health, which is to say chron­ic liv­ing and the pol­i­tics of liv­ing that are at stake in it, and asks ques­tions such as:

 

  • What does a pol­i­tics of liv­ing look like today in dif­fer­ent parts of the world amidst demo­graph­ic, epi­demi­o­log­i­cal, fer­til­i­ty and care tran­si­tions as well as widen­ing inequal­i­ty gaps?
  • In which ways is the dai­ly liv­ing, qual­i­ty of life and/or well­be­ing of indi­vid­u­als and com­mu­ni­ties tar­get­ed and sought to be improved?
  • How do we get to know about dai­ly liv­ing? Whose dai­ly liv­ing and whose knowledge?
  • How have the dai­ly lives of per­sons iden­ti­fied as ‘at risk’ come to be tar­get­ed through pre­ven­tive health inter­ven­tions and of those liv­ing with (chron­ic) con­di­tions come to be tar­get­ed in efforts to improve their lives?
  • How do peo­ple with (chron­ic) con­di­tions and their sig­nif­i­cant oth­ers strive to live as well as pos­si­ble with dis­ease? Which par­tic­u­lar rhythms, dis­rup­tions and poten­tials char­ac­ter­ize the anti­de­pres­sant-lives, chemo-lives, immuno­sup­pres­sant-lives, dial­y­sis-lives, fac­tor-lives, anti­retro­vi­ral-lives, trans­plant-lives, cor­ti­cos­teroid-lives, insulin-lives and more that mil­lions of peo­ple (and their fam­i­lies) lead or seek to access?
  • How do (for­mal and infor­mal) care prac­tices afford peo­ple diag­nosed with a dis­ease and their sig­nif­i­cant oth­ers to live well? How has the pro­vi­sion of health care and ideas and prac­tices of “good care” changed as in dif­fer­ent parts of an unequal world more and more peo­ple live with (often mul­ti­ple) chron­ic con­di­tions, at times in con­junc­tion with the vicis­si­tudes of ageing?

 


Still pos­si­ble to reg­is­ter as a non-paper par­tic­i­pant! 5 amaz­ing keynote talks, 40 open pan­el ses­sions cov­er­ing top­ics such as “strug­gles around care”, “liv­ing with/at risk”, “the (un)making of space” and “chron­ic car­ing” through 380+ papers. Join us!

CHRONIC LIVING

qual­i­ty, vital­i­ty and health in the 21st century

an inter­na­tion­al conference

4th – 6th of March 2021, Uni­ver­si­ty of Copen­hagen, Denmark

Reg­is­ter Here

Keynote Speak­ers:  

  • Aditya Bharad­waj, Anthro­pol­o­gy and Soci­ol­o­gy, Grad­u­ate Insti­tute of Inter­na­tion­al and Devel­op­ment Studies
  • Jean­nette Pols, Depart­ment of Soci­ol­o­gy and Anthro­pol­o­gy, Uni­ver­si­ty of Amsterdam
  • Niko­las Rose, Depart­ment of Glob­al Health & Social Med­i­cine, King’s Col­lege London
  • Susan Reynolds Whyte, Depart­ment of Anthro­pol­o­gy, Uni­ver­si­ty of Copenhagen
  • Joe Dumit, Depart­ment of Anthro­pol­o­gy, Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia Davis

While still (too) many peo­ple die from fatal dis­eases, more and more peo­ple all around the world are liv­ing with chron­ic con­di­tions. Qual­i­ta­tive aspects of dai­ly liv­ing, thus, emerge as objects of knowl­edge as well as sites of inter­ven­tions just as “lifestyle” and “well­be­ing” fig­ure as tar­gets of more and more health and wel­fare inter­ven­tions. “Qual­i­ty of life” has become a qual­i­ty of care para­me­ter mea­sured by med­ical pro­fes­sion­als who pro­vide treat­ments for dis­eases that can­not be cured, only lived with. A “nor­mal life” has become the promise in adver­tise­ments that phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal com­pa­nies bring out. Pre­ven­tive (men­tal) health inter­ven­tions, “pos­i­tive liv­ing” HIV projects, and patient asso­ci­a­tions, while pro­vid­ing advice and sup­port fam­i­lies on how best to “live with” a par­tic­u­lar con­di­tion, feed into imper­a­tives of liv­ing well.

With this move towards qual­i­ty, vital­i­ty and health, and with chron­ic liv­ing as object at the inter­sec­tion of knowl­edge pro­duc­tion and inter­ven­tion, a new pol­i­tics of liv­ing con­tin­ues to unfold which pos­es method­olog­i­cal, the­o­ret­i­cal, and nor­ma­tive chal­lenges in the social sci­ences of med­i­cine. Med­ical anthro­pol­o­gy, soci­ol­o­gy, STS and oth­er neigh­bour­ing dis­ci­plines have a long tra­di­tion of study­ing the process­es of liv­ing with (chron­ic) dis­ease. Count­less ethno­graph­ic stud­ies have pro­vid­ed insights about how all around the world peo­ple go about their every­day life endeav­ours while actu­al­ly liv­ing with depres­sion, demen­tia, dia­betes, can­cer, heart dis­ease, kid­ney dis­ease and more. As a result, a wide range of ana­lyt­i­cal tools and the­o­ret­i­cal reper­toires have emerged to grasp “chron­ic liv­ing” rang­ing from expe­ri­ence (inter­sub­jec­tiv­i­ty), exis­ten­tial mean­ing (lead­ing a moral/ethical life), suf­fer­ing (strug­gling along), belong­ing (rela­tion­al­i­ty), doing (tin­ker­ing), per­for­mance (affor­dances) or as an object of dis­ci­plin­ing (sub­jec­ti­va­tion).

The Chron­ic Liv­ing con­fer­ence aims to engage, unpack, explore and tack­le qual­i­ty, vital­i­ty and health, which is to say chron­ic liv­ing and the pol­i­tics of liv­ing that are at stake in it, and asks ques­tions such as:

 

  • What does a pol­i­tics of liv­ing look like today in dif­fer­ent parts of the world amidst demo­graph­ic, epi­demi­o­log­i­cal, fer­til­i­ty and care tran­si­tions as well as widen­ing inequal­i­ty gaps?
  • In which ways is the dai­ly liv­ing, qual­i­ty of life and/or well­be­ing of indi­vid­u­als and com­mu­ni­ties tar­get­ed and sought to be improved?
  • How do we get to know about dai­ly liv­ing? Whose dai­ly liv­ing and whose knowledge?
  • How have the dai­ly lives of per­sons iden­ti­fied as ‘at risk’ come to be tar­get­ed through pre­ven­tive health inter­ven­tions and of those liv­ing with (chron­ic) con­di­tions come to be tar­get­ed in efforts to improve their lives?
  • How do peo­ple with (chron­ic) con­di­tions and their sig­nif­i­cant oth­ers strive to live as well as pos­si­ble with dis­ease? Which par­tic­u­lar rhythms, dis­rup­tions and poten­tials char­ac­ter­ize the anti­de­pres­sant-lives, chemo-lives, immuno­sup­pres­sant-lives, dial­y­sis-lives, fac­tor-lives, anti­retro­vi­ral-lives, trans­plant-lives, cor­ti­cos­teroid-lives, insulin-lives and more that mil­lions of peo­ple (and their fam­i­lies) lead or seek to access?
  • How do (for­mal and infor­mal) care prac­tices afford peo­ple diag­nosed with a dis­ease and their sig­nif­i­cant oth­ers to live well? How has the pro­vi­sion of health care and ideas and prac­tices of “good care” changed as in dif­fer­ent parts of an unequal world more and more peo­ple live with (often mul­ti­ple) chron­ic con­di­tions, at times in con­junc­tion with the vicis­si­tudes of ageing?